Dabu, Shisanjianfang, Turpan basin: Late/Upper Paleocene, China
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Geography
| Country: | China | State/province: | Xinjiang | County: | Turpan pendi |
| Coordinates: | 43.2° North, 91.3° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 42.7° North, 83.8° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Paleocene |
| Stage: | Thanetian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 1 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Paleocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 59.20000 - 56.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Dabu |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | coarse,white lithified sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | lithified argillaceous,silty sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: A layer of white coarse grained sandstone within loamy sandstone or sandy mudstone | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection size: | 8 specimens |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: specimens number: Coryphodon dabuensis: V4346, V4347, V4348, V4349
Pyrodon xinjiangensis: V4350, V4351, V4352, V4353; the museum is not mentioned | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Dabu chezhan, Tulufan, Turfan, Tulufan pendi, Turpan pendi | ||
| Database number: | 36659 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | S. Kuemmell |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-02-09 03:56:16 | Last modified: | 2021-03-17 11:35:29 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-02-09 03:56:16 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 9642. | 5% 23420 | R. Zhai. 1978. Two new early Eocene mammals from Sinkiang Uighur with remarks on the age of Gashato Fromation. Memoirs of Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology (= Nanjing Dizhi Gushengwu Yanjiusuo Jikan) 13:102-106 [J. Alroy/S. Kuemmell/S. Kuemmell] |